His last job at Newcastle United was the only club he would say there wasn’t a degree of success.

He was on the short-list for the Scotland job eight or nine years ago and was interviewed.

Graeme has since stated that the SFA wanted their manager to live in Scotland full-time, and that wasn’t an ideal scenario for Graeme at that time.

His name has popped up again, and he was asked directly a couple of weeks ago in an interview if he’d be interested in succeeding Gordon Strachan.

Graeme made it quite clear that his time as a manager is over.

We have to believe him, and now can only guess if he would have been a successful Scotland boss.

All I would say is that Graeme had all the credentials to deliver success.

His knowledge of the game would suggest he would have had more than a good chance of giving our country what it so badly wants.

He has charisma, presence and respect.

When you are in a dressing-room and players see all of that standing in front of them, and then leading them down the tunnel into action, they would feel they had a more than good chance of beating the opponents in front of them.

But, as I say, we’ll never know for sure.

What I do know is that Graeme is the best pundit in the media.

When he is on the television and analysing games, offering his opinion, he delivers it all with wonderful simplicity and outstanding accuracy.

He doesn’t try to reinvent the dictionary and use new words. He just calls it on the button and the viewer will relate to the point he is making.

He also doesn’t need to be controversial just for the sake of it.

Some pundits come across as though they are trying to be critical for the sake of it, and to raise their own profile.

Graeme doesn’t need to do that as he has the knowledge, expertise and success to back up his opinions.

He also calls it as someone who is totally impartial when he is doing his media work.

I always enjoy watching him on the television, just as I enjoyed being his team-mate and still enjoy being his friend.